{"id":1338,"date":"2024-06-02T17:08:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T21:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2024-06-02T17:08:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T21:08:47","slug":"addressing-the-huge-need-for-home-repair-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/addressing-the-huge-need-for-home-repair-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Addressing the Huge Need for Home Repair Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display\"><span class=\"title text\">A home repair program in Pennsylvania aimed at helping low-income homeowners is facing overwhelming demand for assistance, with thousands of applicants on the waiting list. The program, funded by federal COVID-19 relief money, provides grants of up to $18,000 for critical repairs. However, the high demand has caused delays in processing applications, leaving many in need of urgent repairs waiting for help. The program administrators are working to streamline the process and increase efficiency in order to assist as many homeowners as possible.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>A first-in-the-nation home repair program sees overwhelming demand <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartcitiesdive.com\/news\/pennsylvania-home-repair-program-overwhelming-demand\/714154\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.smartcitiesdive.com\/news\/pennsylvania-home-repair-program-overwhelming-demand\/714154\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780847873982\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A home repair program in Pennsylvania aimed at helping low-income homeowners is facing overwhelming demand for assistance, with thousands of applicants on the waiting list. The program, funded by federal COVID-19 relief money, provides grants of up to $18,000 for critical repairs. However, the high demand has caused delays in processing applications, leaving many in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/addressing-the-huge-need-for-home-repair-help\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Addressing the Huge Need for Home Repair Help&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}